SectorsWater, waste and environment
Water, waste and environment tenders: where they are published.
Water and waste procurement is municipal by nature and utility-scale in value: treatment plants, network works, collection services and environmental monitoring, bought by water companies, municipalities and environment agencies that each publish for themselves.
The vocabulary that carries it
Buyers classify every European notice with a CPV code. These are the divisions that carry water and environmental procurement, 201 codes in total. Each links to its own page with the official label in four languages and the codes beneath it.
The codes Portugal actually buys under
90911200Building-cleaning services282 · €28.9m90611000Street-cleaning services158 · €3.8m90921000Disinfecting and exterminating services146 · €6.1m90511100Urban solid-refuse collection services64 · €80.4m90919300School cleaning services44 · €1.4m90512000Refuse transport services43 · €9.9m90470000Sewer cleaning services40 · €2.6m90918000Bin-cleaning services32 · €1.6m90680000Beach cleaning services31 · €28m90524400Collection, transport and disposal of hospital waste28 · €8.2m90670000Disinfecting and exterminating services in urban or rural areas22 · €662.6k90913200Reservoir cleaning services20 · €689.5kContracts signed and value contracted under each code in Portugal, January to July 2026, counted from the open register across every procedure type. Each row is the deepest code carrying data: a whole division would take the list, because everything beneath it counts towards it.
What the notices look like
These contracts are long and recurring, which means the incumbent advantage is real and the re-tender date is the opportunity. The notices themselves are often mundane; the money is in multi-year service contracts renewed on a known cycle.
How contested it is, measured in Portugal
Portugal publishes its whole contract register as open data, so competition can be counted there rather than estimated. These are Portuguese figures for January to July 2026, and only open procedures whose bidder list was reported: direct awards are excluded, because there the buyer chooses who bids and a single offer is the design of the procedure. Method and sources on the Barómetro.
Who publishes these tenders
The TRINTA registry classifies buyers by type, health, state enterprise, regional, defence, donor, and this sector is not one of those types: its notices come from the general public buyers of each country rather than from a distinct class of publisher. So there is no honest sector-buyer count to print here. What the country pages do show is where those general buyers publish, national portal first and the rest beside it, country by country.
How TRINTA covers the sector
TRINTA does not watch a sector, it watches a company. The radar is built from your actual catalogue rather than from a code list, scans 1010+ official sources every day, and scores each notice 0 to 100 for fit with the reasoning shown. That distinction matters most in this sector precisely because buyers file procedures under neighbouring codes: a notice tagged one branch away still surfaces when the text matches what you sell.
Frequently asked questions
Which CPV codes cover water and waste tenders?
Water and environmental procurement runs under CPV division 90, sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental services, and division 41, collected and purified water, with treatment and network construction procured under the construction divisions. Equipment for treatment plants appears under the industrial machinery codes, so the sector's real footprint is wider than its two headline divisions.
Who publishes water and waste tenders?
Usually the operator rather than the state: municipal water companies, regional utilities and waste authorities, most of them publishing on their own channels alongside the national portal. In the TRINTA registry these appear as state-owned enterprises and regional buyers, the two largest categories of source outside the national channels.
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